WordPress Management

WordPress Management Services

WordPress is trusted by the best and currently powers approx 35% of all websites from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online and has powerful features with limitless possibilities. But with great power comes great responsibility so due to it’s popularity and dominance it has become an easy target for hackers with malicious intent.

However we can take care of all of your security requirements in a safe and succinct manner so that you don’t have to take the time out of your busy day to do this yourself. And you can rest assured that your site is always kept up to date, backed up and secure.

Outdated software — whether it’s WordPress, themes or plugins — puts your sites at risk because security vulnerabilities are often well known.

Make sure your WordPress website is secure and protected with our Care Plans. They work to fix common WordPress security issues you may not know exist. By adding an extra layer of protection, our Care Plans help give you peace of mind — and keeps the bad guys out.

It is paramount that your WordPress app, theme, translations and plugins are updated when they become available, we tend to allow 24 hours to pass before doing so to give the developers time to fix any teething problems that sometimes occur.

It is also important to watch out for plugin conflicts when updating them. Whenever you update any component of your website you should always perform a backup beforehand and check the live site once complete. If any problems arise you can test if the issue is a plugin conflict by turning them all off and then turning them back on one-by-one. If it’s not a conflict it might be an issue with whatever you updated so you may need to restore the site from the backup you made.

WordPress After Care Plan

All of the websites we design and build in WordPress come with a great deal of security and management features as standard and at no extra cost. To find out what comes included in the website build and what further SEO, security and management features are included in our WordPress After Care Plan please see below…

We include all the following features as standard.

Website Design & Build

Front-end page builder used which is also available for client’s use when updating site
Built on a lightweight theme for speed optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Automated Title & Description Meta Tags – based on the name of the page and from the top-most content
Google Account Integration including Google Analytics
XML sitemap & HTML sitemap
Google Knowledge Graph
Facebook Open Graph
Twitter Card
Redirect attachments to post parent or file URL

Security Features

Mandatory SSL Certificate (included in the price of secure hosting or After Care Plan)
Banned Users
Local & Network Brute Force Protection
Mandatory Strong Passwords
Refuse Compromised Passwords
Disable File Editor
Reduce Comment Spam
Prevent directory listing in key WordPress directories
Removal or renaming of several WordPress settings and functions

Management Features

Monthly on-server backups of database & content
Uptime monitoring
Google API Keys for Maps and Reviews

Some of the standard features listed on the previous page are superseded by some of the features listed below in the After Care Plan package.

SEO Boost

Security Features

Management Features

Google Local Business Data Type
Google Structured Data Types (schemas)
Google Suggestions
Automatic/manual schemas
Dublin Core
Video XML Sitemap
Search Engine Friendly Redirects
Create/edit robots.txt
Breadcrumbs
WooCommerce
Google News Sitemap
404 monitoring
URL Rewriting

Mandatory SSL Certificate included at no extra cost
Security Dashboard
Google reCAPTCHA Integration
Two-Factor Authentication
Passwordless Login
Scheduled Malware Scanning
User Action Logging
WordPress User Security Check
Block specific IP addresses and user agents from the site
404 Detection
Away Mode
Force SSL for any post, page, or admin page
XML-RPC brute force protection

Any structural or design updates are performed and tested in staging area before going live on your website
Make backups before any updates are performed
Daily off-site backups of database
Weekly off-site backups of content
Scheduled Clean-up Operation which will further help site-load
time and search engine rankings
Broken link monitoring
Disaster Recovery
Monthly reports
Image optimisation on upload for client’s use